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Honestly only touch users/tablets are going to use that interface, even if it supports mouse/keyboard. And tablets are devices that are primarly used while sitting on the coach and watching TV, as recent studies have shown (maybe that's why I don't have one).

I guess you weren't serious with the thread title in the first place, but no, Linux and Mac are definitly not screwed because of that thing.

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Honestly only touch users/tablets are going to use that interface, even if it supports mouse/keyboard. And tablets are devices that are primarly used while sitting on the coach and watching TV, as recent studies have shown (maybe that's why I don't have one).

I guess you weren't serious with the thread title in the first place, but no, Linux and Mac are definitly not screwed because of that thing.

Yeah, that stuff is only for touch related stuff, on a desktop one will quickly dump it.

Anyway, Michal said a day or 2 ago there would be some major announcement and a big win for open source, time is up.

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I don't know how you figure Mac and Linux is screwed. If anything the interface (if it was the only interface, a traditional desktop is still part of Windows 8) would be enough for a shitload of users to switch to a OS that does offer a more traditional desktop.

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There are some cool/interesting ideas there, but I'm not really sold on it even as a tablet interface (for which it's obviously optimized). I think they're taking a risk changing the overall experience that much when the main draw of Windows is the ability to natively run Windows apps, many of which will never be updated at all, let alone changed to conform to the new UI concept. A couple times in the video he says something like "because it's a PC...", but this interface arguably makes more sense for the ARM port.